Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Isaiah 64:3
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Isaiah64:3
3. When--Supply from Is 64:2, "As when."
terrible things--(Psa 65:5).
we looked not for--far exceeding the expectation of any of our nation; unparalleled before (Ex 34:10; Psa 68:8).
camest down--on Mount Sinai.
mountains flowed--Repeated from Is 64:1; they pray God to do the very same things for Israel now as in former ages. Gesenius, instead of "flowed" here, and "flow" in Is 64:1, translates from a different Hebrew root, "quake ... quaked"; but "fire" melts and causes to flow, rather than to quake (Is 64:2).
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